The most fatal virus known to science rabies - a disease that spreads avidly from animals to
humans - kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the
brain. In this critically acclaimed exploration journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica
Murphy chart four thousand years of the history science and cultural mythology of rabies.
From Greek myths to zombie flicks from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the
contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment Rabid is a fresh and often wildly entertaining
look at one of humankind¿s oldest and most fearsome foes.
